THRILLS AND DRAMA.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20222, 5 February 1934, Page 3

THRILLS AND DRAMA.

Liberty Features Two Fine

Pictures.

A double-feature programme of exceptional interest and entertainment value is offered at the Liberty Theatre this week. Splendidly contrasted, and equally well acted, “ Employees’ Entrance ” and “ Headline Shooter ” are both first-class pictures, new in theme and enthralling in interest. In the first Warren William and Loretta Young have the leads, and in the second William Gargan, Frances Dee and Ralph Bellamy share the honours. “ Employees’ Entrance ” is a daring story centred round the working of a large deaprtment store in America. As a film it has its feature in the splendid acting of Warren William as the tyrannical manager whose creed is “ smash.” He believes in no halfmeasures, and has no mercy. If a man cannot, or does not, give of his best there is no second chance. Thus tragedy after tragedy is enacted without once moving the hard and unscrupulous man who is the cause of it all, until the marriage of Loretta Young to his young assistant-manager, played by Wallace Ford, upsets his plans. He tries to destroy their happiness in the hope of separating them, but meets his first failure. It is a splendid character study of an exaggerated modern type, and conveys a cruel picture of the ways in which some big businesses are built. The second attraction, “ Headline Shooter,” is a refreshing production dealing with the thrilling life and romantic adventures of a newsreel cameraman. It is presented in wonderful style with actual “ shots ” of recent notable calamities and happenings to give it colour. William Gargan and Frences Dee bear the brunt of the acting in remarkable style, but they are surrounded bv a cast that goes a long way towards making this screen play the success it undoubtedly is. Gargan, as the cameraman, is most impressive. “ CAVALCADE.” “ Cavalcade,” the remarkable talking picture version of Noel Coward’s great stage play, will be screened to-night and to-morrow night at the King’s Theatre Talkies, Sydenham. There is no “ plot ” in the film in the ordinary meaning of the word; it is, instead, a vast sequence of plots which the director has contrived to make always absorbingly interesting and with which he has achieved amazing effects. The great cast includes Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook and Herbert Mundin.